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For 7,603 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,107 out of 7603
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7603
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7603
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bastard Out of Carolina
    The genetic seeds of John Huston's gift are manifest in his daughter's direction of Carolina. Despite its sorrowful subject, Bastard Out of Carolina offers the deep satisfaction of material that rings true. [15 Dec 1996, p.5]
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  2. Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    Native Chicagoan Vaughn remains enigmatic, protected from the camera’s more candid intrusion. But you get a sense of his deep values, virtuous instincts and quiet love of ordinary people.
  3. Everybody Knows
    Everybody Knows finds Farhadi (working with longtime editor Hayedeh Safiyari) consciously going for quicker-than-usual cutting, rarely lingering over anything, always setting up the next part of the mystery. The acting’s uniformly strong, always at the service of a knotty story.
  4. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    There's no question that Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 1 is a virtuoso piece of filmmaking. What's questionable is whether it's more than that.
  5. Fair Game
    Liman's sensibility isn't sophisticated enough to tease out the nuances of what must be a pretty interesting marriage; the movie is more about texture and surfaces and surface tensions.
  6. Two Family House
    Brimming over with affection and humanity, this memory drama about the destruction of one family and the birth of another is nostalgic in a good sense: funny, bittersweet, poignant.
  7. The Bling Ring
    Coppola and her brilliant cinematographer, Harris Savides, keep the action simple, but the perspective is perfect.
  8. Where to Invade Next
    The film is entertaining and disingenuous, which doesn't make it wrong.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Humboldt County
    A slow starter. But what appears to be the cliched "uptight nerd liberated by flighty sprite" tale--done better in films from "Bringing Up Baby" to "Barefoot in the Park"--evolves into something deeper, darker, more resonant.
  10. Assassination Tango
    The movie is an odd mix of tones and styles, and the thriller plot is casually introduced, shoved aside and reintroduced. But, like all Duvall's work, Assassination Tango breathes with humanity.
  11. Quick Change
    It's a particularly great pleasure to encounter Quick Change, a wonderfully loose and graceful character comedy. [13 Jul 990, p.C]
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  12. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
    It’s not great superhero cinema — the verdict is out on whether that’s even possible in the Marvel Phase 6 stage of our lives — but good is good enough for “The Fantastic Four.”
  13. Pacific Rim
    It's closer to the hammering "Transformers" aesthetic than expected. Yet the weirdness around the edges saves it from impersonality.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jesus Camp
    What Ewing and Grady have accomplished here is remarkable--capturing the visceral humanity, desire and unflagging political will of a religious movement.
  15. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
    On the whole, though, it is funny and compassionate, silly and sweet. [26 Aug 1994]
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Taken
    There is no mythology, no irony, no real soul--just a Charles Bronson simplicity about the whole affair.
  17. Mad Max: Fury Road
    The creator of the original "Mad Max" trilogy has whipped up a gargantuan grunge symphony of vehicular mayhem that makes "Furious 7" look like "Curious George."
  18. Igby Goes Down
    Think of the Slocumbs as distant relatives of "The Royal Tenenbaums," only more dysfunctional and far from attractively "quirky."
  19. Copying Beethoven
    Copying Beethoven, at its best, is a sort of grand cinema opera of the composer's life and music.
  20. 20th Century Women
    Ever since she took "The Grifters" by storm, Bening has been a spectacular if often ill-used actress. Here, it's a marvelous fit of performer and role, and she makes Dorothea a dozen things at once: warm, chilly, open, wary, worldly, insecure, grave, blithe.
  21. A Compassionate Spy
    What’s effective and touching in A Compassionate Spy relates directly to the satisfaction of getting to know Joan Hall, a terrifically vital and reflective presence. We get, among other things, a glimpse of a long-lived marriage hounded by secrets and surveillance, but an abiding mutual trust.
  22. The Sheep Detectives
    What you might not expect is how moving this whole story actually is. It’s not just the fun of figuring things out among this cast of colorful characters, rendered with a storybook look, it’s actually a tale about the importance of finding, and tending to, a flock.
  23. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    Sollett works easily and well with Cera and Dennings, and lends a touch of awkward realism to what, from a screenwriting perspective, is pure formula.
  24. Everybody's Famous!
    Likable comedy about ordinary people stumbling badly and then triumphing.
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  25. The Avengers
    If the film is more solid and satisfying than terrific, so be it.
  26. Ivansxtc
    This cynical film paints a hugely unflattering portrait of life in Hollywood's fast lane. I have no way of knowing exactly how much is exaggeration, but I've got a creepy feeling that the film is closer to the mark than I want to believe.
  27. A Man Called Ove
    Sweet and flinty in roughly equal measure, the movie's a big hit in its native country.
  28. Ararat
    This toweringly ambitious picture confronts a brilliant director, Atom Egoyan, with a major historical event and a profound theme.
  29. Working Girls
    Director Lizzie Borden sticks to the business of trying to elicit natural performances from a cast that includes Off-off Broadway actors, actors with almost no credits and, among the men, some who are not actors at all. To a remarkable degree she has succeeded, particularly in the case of Louise Smith, who plays Molly. [13 Mar 1987, p.D]
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  30. Public Enemies
    It's a fascinating bundle of contradictions -- authentic in a million details, deeply romanticized in others. Cool, calm and collected, this is more love story than gangster picture.
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